His Pontiac dealership is the biggest in the world, the Cadillac business is . WLNS is not required to air any political ads, but if one candidates ad is rejected, we cant run ads from other candidates for that same race. More: Chief James Craig has broken racial barriers while mostly backing the status quo, More: GOP candidate Tudor Dixon calls Whitmer 'Michigan's original insurrectionist' in video. Issues: Kelley wants to toughen voter ID rules, ban absentee drop boxes, cancel contracts with voting machine companies and require clerks to hand-count ballots, a process that would require weeks to tabulate results. In his Lansing speech, Rinke said that "the insurance industry, which manages that fund, gets paid about $182 million a year to manage the fund," and "that's pretty good money.". the 2020 presidential election results in Michigan, reject federal dollars for the state Department of Education and realign our countrys values with our education system by eliminating public school positions devoted to diversity and equity. Your IP: '", IN OTHER NEWS: Furious Ted Cruz shouts at Merrick Garland as he erupts over Kavanaugh protests. He turned to politics in 2020, when his Facebook group that opposed Whitmers COVID-19 quarantine exploded in popularity to more than 400,000 members. The Oakland County-based businessman is the only self-funded candidate left in the field, pledging $10 million of his own money to his campaign. This male employee was sexually harassed by Kevin Rinke. Instead, hechose to purchase them, partly through a bank loan and partly through installment payments, to his dad, who represented the second generation of the Rinke automotive story that began in 1917, and whodied in 2020 atage95. Rinke was sued twice by former car dealership employees in 1992, with one suit alleging Rinke made racist remarks to a Black male and the other alleging sexist remarks and harassing behavior by him toward a female. 6 News spoke with Kevin Rinkie who said the ad is a joke, focusing on what he claims is a bigger problem, election integrity. "I don't think people who buy the fentanyl think they're gonna overdose and I suspect that the people who deal it think they're gonna get caught -- even if you have the death penalty they don't think, 'I'm gonna get caught. Kevin Rinke, a Republican candidate for governor who is a former auto dealer and owner of a health care company, said he thinks his successful approach to business can be applied to state government. I think it's full of hate, I think it's full of division," he said. It is partly Rinke's experience with Cassell & Associates that informs his criticism of the 2019 changes to Michigan's auto no-fault system, which Whitmer signed into law after reaching an agreement with the Republican-controlled Legislature. Follow him on Twitter @paulegan4. Rebandt, 64, is a retired pastor from Farmington Hills who wants to bring Judeo-Christian values back to Michigan. Using a database maintained by the Heritage Foundation, we found only six cases of people convicted for casting ballots or attempting to cast ballots in the name of deceased or dead voters in the 2020 general election. That doesnt mean there were not cases of election fraud in Michigan. He said his ad where he appears alongside a zombie has been a success in garnering attention to his campaign and his calls for tighter election laws. I didn't pick what color I came out. LANSING . Rinke, of Bloomfield Township, has pledged to spend at least $10 million of his own money on a campaign that pits him against 12 other Republicans. Hes unvaccinated and spoken out against mandates but acknowledges the vaccine saved lives of the elderly and obese. Hes also questioned Dixons commitment to Trump for not directly answering a question about fraud during a national interview. Then there was also the Norfolk Southern line that had an oil tanker train derail into a creek in 2022. But should he win the primary in August, he will remove himself from any private investment positions that he believes pose a conflict, he said. The former president's support of Dixon now puts him on the same side in the GOP primary as the family of Betsy DeVos, who served as Trump's education secretary. The states budget is $530 million for community colleges and $2 billion for universities, and such a cut would devastate many schools. Connor was not eligible to vote, but she signed and cast an early ballot on behalf of her mother, Caroline Jeanne Sullivan, who died approximately one month before Connor signed the ballot envelope. But, he said, they total about $30 million, with information technology costs being the largest single expense and staff salaries and outside lawyers, auditors and actuaries being among the other expenses. It's a poisoning and it's a war against our kids. Rinke's only other sibling, his older sister Beth, was already launched onher own successful career in industrial design. Bridge profile: Ralph Rebandt: Id bring back Judeo-Christian values as Michigan governor. . He also said the Supreme Court should allow state-level bans on gay marriage. Gretchen Whitmer in the November election. Energy Transfer, which owns the company. The auditors report concluded that the high percentage of ballots (98.5%) cast by voters who later died within 40 days prior to the election is because of the delays among the dates of a persons death, death certification, and formal removal from QVF. Those delays make it less likely that an election worker can identify and reject such ballots, it said. The businessman from Metro Detroit is married to his wife, Janine. Rinke also said during the Lansing speech that the reason the fund is so large, at more than $20 billion, is because the MCCA uses an expected life expectancy of 107 years for catastrophically injured accident victims, when it makes its actuarial calculations. "He wasn't fully prepared nobody is.". NEW! Privacy Policy | For corrections contact corrections@rawstory.com, for support contact support@rawstory.com. IS THIS THE KIND OF HUMAN BEING YOU WANT TO BE MICHIGANS NEXT GOVERNOR? In the 2020 general election, 3,469 absentee ballots were rejected because they were cast by voters who were alive but who died before Election Day, according to the department. 56. Told about Clinton's response to what he said, Rinke said he stands by his assertion that the fund contains much more money than it should. "We pay 100% of the expenses, privately, we bring in warriors, and we get them to where theyre shooting a gun again, where theyre able to hunt or fish," Rinke said. 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One business Rinke was proud to talk about when asked was Trinidad Ranch Ventures LLC, formed in 2020. Though he supports an abortion ban, Rinke is unusual among the GOP candidates in that he favors exceptions in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the pregnant person. At a glance: Kelley has picked up considerable grassroots support from the Make America Great Again wing of the Republican Party, speaking out against COVID-19 vaccines and supporting Trumps false claims about widespread voter fraud. The Michigan Department of State explains on its website how it complies with the law:Each week, the Michigan Department of State uses information from the Social Security Death Index to cancel the records of individuals in the Qualified Voter File who have died. But Rinke is nothing but a bad used car salesman. "I don't acknowledge the term 'white privilege,' " he said. He argued in the column that it's yet another example of corporate greed coming at the expense of the lives and health of residents in the area. Who Is Kevin Rinke's Wife? Credit card donations may be made throughour Donate page. The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association Fund, created by the Legislature but run by the insurance industry, pays catastrophic claims that exceed $600,000. She also wants to make it a crime to take children to drag schools. The allegations against businessman Kevin Rinke, who ran his family's suburban Detroit auto-dealership empire in the 1990s, are particularly graphic. Michigans nonpartisan, nonprofit news source, The gift that gives all year long. Actually, the number of rejected ballots reached into the thousands in the 2020 general election. Like other candidates, she has spoken out against what she considers critical race theory and against efforts to curb guns following mass shootings. Rinke denies wrongdoing in either case and said the complaints represent a tiny percentage of the hundreds, if not thousands, of workers he has employed. Mukomel added that she wasnt aware of local prosecutors bringing such cases of voter fraud, either. He then turned to Maltz, and said that people who argue for the death penalty for drug dealers forget that criminals will commit crime regardless of the penalties. Q: Is the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy linked to autism or ADHD? HELP US STOP KEVIN RINKE BEFORE HIS BIG-SPENDING EGO TRIP GIVES US FOUR MORE YEARS OF WHITMER! This time, Rinke, who has pledged to spend as much as $10 million of his own money on the campaign, is one of more thana dozen candidates seeking the Republican nomination for governor. Rinke said he never served in the military, but as a result of his brother's plane crash, he can relate to some of what the wounded veterans are going through. Rinke said he "had a chip on my shoulder because people doubted me." The Department of Attorney General has not charged any cases related to voting on behalf of a deceased person in the 2020 or 2016 elections, Lynsey Mukomel, a spokeswoman for the department, told us in an email. Rebandt is running a campaign heavy on morality, speaking out against gay marriage, transgender issues and advocating teaching the Bible as a textbook in schools. Clinton said that statement by Rinke is also false. ", Challenged as to what Detroit riots he was referencing, Rinke said there were Detroit demonstrations following the murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd where "people tried to gin things up," police cars were damaged, and police tactical teams had to be deployed. She also wants to make it a crime to take children to drag schools. His wife had been missing since May 2020. We do again have voter ID laws in the state of Michigan that work very well, they are time tested. Rinke, who is funding his own campaign, made his fortune by partnering with Roger Penske and creating one of the world's largest auto dealer groups. Michigan's "Detroit Free Press" newspaper has opted to endorse Kevin Rinke for the state Republican gubernatorial nomination, calling him the "least dangerous" option from a "pitiful" pack of.